This month’s featured stories
Back to school
Structural steelwork is proving to be the ideal framing solution for a school rebuilding programme near Newtownards in Northern Ireland. FACT FILEStrangford …
Steel gives lesson in efficient design
In the first of two articles highlighting the educational sector in Northern Ireland, NSC reports on a steel-framed scheme bringing together two schools from …
What is fire resistance?
Graham Couchman of the Steel Construction Institute charts the history of fire resistance in structural engineering, and concludes that designs, in the most …
Quick delivery
Flexible long-span office spaces, coupled with a fast erection programme are two of the reasons why a steel-framed option was chosen for Dublin’s latest …
Steel by design
Structural steelwork is helping the Leeds City Academy to expand its premises with a teaching block extension and an enlarged dining hall. FACT FILELeeds City …
Homing in on steel
Structural steelwork has provided the framing solution for the construction of a residential scheme on a confined town centre site in Ipswich. FACT FILEOrwell …
Bridge to future development
A single-span steel bridge forms a central element of an important junction improvement scheme in north Kent. FACT FILEA249 and Grovehurst Road Interchange …
Steel-framed offices provide West End boost
A new commercial development, situated on the corner of Oxford Street and Wells Street, is one of many changes taking place along the capital’s most famous …
New code, new resistance value
In a continuing series of articles looking at the “Generation 2” Eurocodes, David Brown of the SCI considers the significant changes to the bearing …
Mega factory
Being built on the site of the former Redcar steelworks, structural steelwork is helping to create the world’s largest monopile factory. FACT FILEMonopile …
